Crossword puzzles are about facts.
The clues point to specific answers, which the puzzles as a whole.
This means that if you get one answer wrong, the rest will be too.
The challenge is to find the best answer out of all possibilities.
Can you do that? You can but maybe not in the fastest time you desire.
Well at least not at first but you can do better soon.
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